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Macbook Pro won't shut down after installing Yosemite

Hi,

I just finished installing Yosemite on my Macbook Pro. It's fairly new, the last version with a DVD drive but without retina display (I bought it in May 2014 and it's my first Mac).

I installed Yosemite, updated all my applications from the App Store and tried to shut it down from the Finder but the screen just freezes on a black screen wth the pointer showing and then I to shut it down using the power button which I hate doing.

I turned on FireVault after set up and that is busy encrypting could that be causing this? I did check online and it says you can put your Mac to sleep or shut it down while this is happening, but I haven't been able to. Any tips would be great.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 8:37 AM

122 replies

Oct 18, 2015 9:27 AM in response to HR

Thank you, HR. I had already given up troubleshooting this, but can confirm that unmounting my FireWire 800 drives before a reboot solves the hanging issue. Like many other people on this thread, logging out before rebooting also works for me.

It seems that there might be multiple factors for people's issues at play here and we don't all necessary have the same problem, but for me it's definitely connected to my FireWire drives.

AlyJ

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Dec 28, 2016 3:33 AM in response to Ninnie_89

I've had this for a while.

I used Onyx to verify the disk and then ran a repair permissions. On selecting restart, the machine now restarts correctly.

EDIT: It restarts correctly when restart in Onyx is selected. If I restart from the main menu it hangs still 😟

Macbook Pro won't shut down after installing Yosemite